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A96113	A scribe, pharisee, hypocrite; and his letters answered, separates churched, dippers sprinkled: or, A vindication of the church and universities of England, in many orthodox tenets & righteous practices. Whereunto is added a narration of a publick dipping, June 26. 1656. In a pond of much Leighes parish in Essex, with a censure thereupon. By Jeffry Watts B.D. and Rectour of Much-Leighes.	Watts, Geoffrey, d. 1663.	1657 (1657)	Wing W1154; Thomason E921_1; Thomason E921_2; ESTC R207543	280,939	342

nature as well as others Eph. 2.3 and Eph. 1.4 and yet were not nor could be called dogs notwithstanding impure or hateful before God because they were in and under the love of God which is called Amor Benevolentiae the love of his eternal good Will and Benevolency in electing of them although before their Conversion and before they have Faith they do not stand actually reconciled unto God which is called Amosr Complacentiae the love of his special delight and complacency in accepting of them by the coming of Christ into the world and purchasing it for them so that their persons are never hateful or detestable but beloved and accepted from all eternity and therefore cannot be as bad as dogs though their state wherein they are in may be odious and detestable as was Sauls when he persecuted the Church and as was yours when you walked in wicked wayes and both of you were ignorant of the Truth but this some similar act or quality of a dog as impurity and ignorance for a while is not enough or sufficient to impute the Title and denomination of a dog to such whose persons belong to Gods Election and are under gracious favour of God in a Christ and are parties covenanted with and partakers of the Seal or Seals Doth God take care for Oxen 1 Cor. 9.9 what Dogs who are Gods what a transposition of letters is this what an Anagram which none but an Ingram and Agrammatical man who is himself transported with a zeal without knowledge can or will affirm or make The field that is intended for Wheat fallowed for Wheat and Sown with Wheat is not called or to be called a barren Wilderness and desart Land though weeds come up in it every where and before the good husbandry hath appeared plucking them up but it is called Tilth-land and a Wheat-field The ground of your error lyeth in this that you thought of no other Grace but that of sanctification when you spake those words of your self and others to be dogs until the Grace of God appearing plucking you out of your wicked wayes to the knowledge of the Truth so the words themselves do shew and therby shew also your ignorance of the Grace of God both that of Election and that of Justification which is not any inherent Righteousness and quality as Papists also hold with you which in matter of Justification or Election is but dung as the Apostle calleth it for the Grace of God is one of his Attributes out of us in God and according to the use of Scripture is either metonymically the special gift of Grace or properly the gracious favour of God in Christ by which Grace we are elected called justified sanctified and shall be glorified and in this order they go one before another as several acts and degrees of Grace sanctification being the end or effect as of our Election Eph. 1.4 and of our Justificaiton Luke 1.75 so of our Vocation 1 Thes 4.7 It s a strange error of yours to account your self and others a sheep onely in and under the Grace of sanctification so you say you were no better then a dog till the Grace of God plucked you out of your evil wayes were you then a dog and no sheep in and under the Grace of Election and Vocation and Justification I am sure others are not But what is your drift and scope I pray Sir in writing thus to me now at this time that your self hath not been so good as a dog till the Grace of God appeared plucking you out of your wicked way unto the knowledge of the Truth Is it to advance the power and efficacy of your separate and dipping Ministery above mine and the Sacerdotal function it must be so and no marvel for you committed soul and body unto but one of them my self and others could seldom get your body unto our Churches and Ministery I prepared my dinner and killed my Oxen and fatlings and had all things in a readiness Mat. 22.4 but you made light of it and went another way or would stay at home or when you came if the good seed I sowed in you did not fall into good ground Mat. 13.4 to bring forth fruit but you suffered the fowls the wicked one to devour and catch it away or the thorns of the care of this world to spring up and choak it you must blame neither Seed nor Sower neither Ministery nor Minister but even say of your self I was a High-way side Hearer a Thorny-ground Auditor like as you say you was no better then a dog that while and so I gave that which was holy to dogs But I do not say so that you were that while any such for you did neither trample the holy things under your feet though they fell upon thorns or by the way side neither did you turn again and rend me Again Let no one of you be puffed for one against another 1 Cor. 4.6 I acknowledge there is a difference of Ministery but who maketh thee to differ from another who is Paul and who is Apollos but the Ministers by whom you believed for neither is Paul that planteth nor Apollos that watereth any thing but God that giveth the increase 1 Cor. 3.5 7. you do well and wisely to say The Grace of God appearing pluckt you out and so to ascribe the glory of your plucking out of wicked wayes to the Grace of God The Grace of God is free as the Spirit of God to blow where it listeth John 3.8 and upon whom so by whom and when it listeth Yet thirdly I add that According to the Grace of God which is given to me I have laid the foundation 1 Cor. 3.10 of your coming out of your wicked way to the knowledge of the Truth for many years together and another doth but build thereon and the foundation I have laid in you was none other then Jesus Christ and him crucified The Covenant of the Grace of God in Christ I will be thy God and the God of thy seed made therefore with your believing Parents and your self with the Seals therof which have been given you and the conditions which are to be performed by you yea I have built upon this foundation Gold Silver and precious stones preach in Faith and Repentance and Obedience in your own words coming out of wicked wayes unto the knowledge and practice of the Truth and just then when the building should have been raised up unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ you fell a pulling down as fast as I had built up yea you suffered others to come in upon you by their sleights and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive to build upon my foundation Wood Hay and Stubble and such combustible things and to set in many of their weak and impotent and beggerly rudiments upon it especially those three your separation from your Church your evil affection to the ordained

to the washing the Leprofie of original sin and as the Waters of Bethesda to the healing of other diseases whatsoever even their actual sins also when afterwards committed It is true that your Children dying without Baptism may be saved by the Coverant and Promise of God and his Grace many are so all are so that are of the Number of Gods Elect Yea I confesse the hope of salvation doth no lie so much in the Seal as in the Covenant and Promise to which the Seal is annexed Indeed the Lord having made a promse to you beleeving Parents concerning your Children born in original sin That he will be your God and the God of your seed in this case you must beleeve this his Word and Promise But where he hath ordained a Seal for the confirmation of your Faith you must take heed how you neglect to apply it you must not as more than too many do in these days think it a superfluous and idle figure and some also hold it a superftitious and Idol-service That which I may and do plead with you for is this that you would so account of it as it is that there is a necessity lying upon you to baptise your Children born in original sin I mean a necessity not absolute but conditional in case your Children be prevented of Baptism by death you may well hope of the salvation of them by the Promise and Covenant onely as I said of God and his Grace and if after Baptism they be taken away from you by death you may better hope of their salvation from both Covenant and Seal also But if you be carelesse and negligent and do also it may be purposely and prophanely omit your duty to put your Children in Covenant with your selfs under the initial Seal thereof you will very hardly answer such your course either to God himself or his Church yea or to your Children and I think at laft to your own Consciences But in the mean time what blindnesse and presumption is this in you Parents to tempt God and to cast your Children onely upon the hands of his Spirit when he hath also appointed Water for their Washing and Regenerating this is as if you should throw up your Children unto the top of the Pinnacle of the Temple when as you have a Ladder standing and reaching up thither to carry them up by or upon upon this glosie God shall give his Angels charge over them so his Spirit order over them and in their hands shall they bear them up and on his finger shall he hold them lest at any time they perish and come to destruction bodily or ghostly What Prophanesse and impiety is this in you Parents to slight and refuse the outward ordinary means of your Childrens spiritual and eternal good as it may be the freeing of them from the Guilt Dominion and Condemnation of original pollution c. and to refer them over wholly to the inward ordinary means Christ Jesus and his Spirit when as these have appointed and dedicated the former to be used and applyed also What carelesnesse yea cruelty is this in you Parents to leave and let your Children lie in the pit and under the bondage of original and natural pollution into the which your selves have been accessary to their falling and not to suffer a hand of Gods ordinance to be reached out unto them which is Baptism for their raising up unto newness of Birth and Life And whereas God hath made a Covenant with you for your selves and your Children yea a joynt Covenant with you both to be your God and the God of your seed what ingratitude is this and ungodsiness to God what inhumanity or apparent imparentnesse is this to with-hold your Children from the Seal of that Covenant and so in a manner to disinherit them as much as in you lieth of their just and due Joynture and inheritance spiritual and eternal Well be it so your infants dying without Baptism may be saved and I pray God they may be saved through the Riches of his Grace but you have not delivered your own souls because you gave no warning to have them baptised as you ought to do seeing the evil come and more a coming upon them But suppose you with-holding them from their means of Baptism blow no Trumpet give no warning to have them baptised God should also with-hold his Spirit of Grace from your Children which God forbid and your Children be taken away in their infancy and minority They shall die in their iniquity or original sin But their-blood will he require at your hands for your negligence contempt you have broken his Covenant Gen. 17.14 Ezek. 33. A fifth warrant or reason is this If Baptism now under the Gospel doth succeed Circumcision under the Law Then are the Infants of covenanted beleeving Parents to be baptised like as Infants of the covenanted professing Jewes were circumcised this warrant is reasoned out or this reason warranted out of Collossians 2.11 and 12. Where the Apostle plainly sheweth that there is no need of their being circumcised who were baptised Jews or Gentiles because such baptised ones had received the Circumcision made without hands namely Baptism the better and great Circumcision as the Antients call it If you deny this you must affirm that the Churches of the Gospel and all the Gentiles converted to the faith of Christ of whom especially they consist are left without a Sacrament of Inititiaon or admission thereinto for their infants and so without one Seal of the Covenant of Grace which ought not to be nor is indeed For the Condition of Christians and their Infants is better at leastwise as good under the New Testament as the Old the Grace of God by the cōing of Christ into the world is more ample and clear as ample clear at leastwise to us living under the Gospel as to the Jewes living under the Law To deny these things were to cast foul dirt into the bright Sun and to shoot Arrows of Contumely Reproach into heaven against our Lord Jesus Christ by whom came Truth and Grace 1 John 17. as the Law was given by Moses and to grant these things is to yeeld Infant Baptism under the New Testament And whereas it is or may be replyed that in that Text above and others where Biptism is conjoyned to Circumcision as its substitute and successor there also are conjoyned with Baptism Mortification of the Flesh Newness of Life Faith and other Graces mentioned it s easily taken off though one of your most difficult Replies as thus 1. They are no more conjoyned with Baptism than Circumcision and therefore as their Infants were commanded to be circumcised So ours are commanded to be baptised notwithstanding their iuoability and incapacity of doing such acts or having such Graces which is equal and alike in both 2. In such Conjunctions if the Texts speak of Actual Faith Actual indeavoring after Mortification c. And require

Constantinople Basilius born also a Graecian and contemporary with Gregory was also brought up in humane literature at Caesarea first and then at the Vniversity of Athens under Eubulus his Master a Heathen whom he afterwards converted to the faith and coming to Libanius the Sophister and a School-master who thought to have posed him with some hard and difficult verses of Homer he expounded them with such readiness and wit that he astonished Libanius and when he could not convert him from Idolatry to Christianity he gave directions to the young-men his Scholars concerning their deportment in their Studies He was surnamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil the Great and came to be Bishop of Caesarea and Cappadocia Athanasius a Graecian born was brought up by his Parents in learning and excelled in all sorts thereof was ordained Deacon and received the order of Priesthood about what time Arrius began to broach his heresies to whom Athanasius was the greatest opponent in the Nicene Councel Was after chosen Bishop of Alexandria by the general suffrages of all the Churches there and by the last Will of his Predecessor there Irenaeus a Graecian was a general Scholar in all Humane learning as himself sheweth by his refuting the Hereticks in all their Sophisticated arguments shewing them to be fetcht only out of the Fables of Poets and Philosophers and therefore himself must needs be well versed in them as who wittily useth their Proverbs Exhortations and Examples to the confutation of them and their errors whom therefore Tertullian stiles omnium doctrinarum curiosissimum exploratorem He was after Bishop of Lyons And as I have shewed this truth in the famous Bishops some of whom I have made choice I will do the like in three or four of famous Divines onely and not Bishops who were quallified at first with Humane learning And I will go downward as I went upward before Justinus Martyr was a Palaestine born and was a most acute Philosopher Ad Philosopiae tum nostrae tum posissimum prophanae summum evectus fastigium saith Photius He mostly lived in Rome as the place of his abode where both in life speech and habit he professed himself a Philosopher saying he found great profit by these Studies yet made them subservient to his Diviner ones He was the first Champion that appeared against those Hereticks Marcion and Valentinian Tertullian an Affrican born he was indeed well read in Poets Grammarians Histories Laws well seen in Physicks and Philosophy of whom Hierom testifieth that his works cunctam saeculi continent disciplinam And what a great Divine he was the world knoweth and especially Cyprian who in all his Theological doubts still said Da mihi Magistrum intelligens Tertullianum Clemens Alexandrinus a Graecian and born at Athens a great Student of History Poetry and Philosophy and excellent therein even in all the Heathens Sciences and Arts and what a great Divine proved he and a learned Priest also who having been an Auditor to Pantaenus supplying the place in the City of Alexandria next after the Apostle and he dying was chosen Master of the Catechists in which place he maintained mightily the mysteries of the Religion Origen a Graecian born at Alexandria and Scholar or Auditor of Clemens Alexandrinus where he studied and learned Logick Arithmetick Rhetorick History Poetry Cosmography and was experienced in all Arts and Sciences Where also in that City and Vniversity too of Alexandria as some make it he taught a School and professed the same Arts. Soon after he read the grounds of Religion and soundly instructed the Christians and strengthened them against the storms of persecution so that Demetrius the Bishop of Alexandria thought him a fit instrument to be placed in the Church and so called him to be Catechista or Reader of Divinity in that City in the place and room of Clemens Alexandrinus deceased They the Disciples of Christ were from these two last named Origen and Clemens first called Catechumenists being about the year 226. Lactantius Firmianus of whose Country I read nothing a Romane or Italian most likely He was the Scholler and Disciple of Arnobius and publiquely taught Rhetorick in Nicomedia quasi quidam fluvius eloquentiae Tullianae and in his old age was called to Court to teach and Tutor Chrispus the Son of Constantine the Latine tongue This made him the better able to set forth his skill in the diviner mysteries so that by the help of his humane learning he wrote the more strongly against the Gentiles and Heathens in defence of the Christians Hieronymus an Italian born at Histeria was brought up at Rome the best Academy for learning then though there were Schools for learning also elsewhere in France Affrick Spain as I have hinted His Master for Grammar there was Donatus who is thought to be the same who hath made-such learned Comentaries on Terence and Virgil and for Rhetorick Victorinus He read Porphyrius Isagoge or Introduction to Logick and the Philosophy of Plato and the Stoicks He looked into Cosmography History and Antiquities intending to study Divinity and to set it forth with all the lustre that might being now sufficiently furnished with the Arts He was also excellently learned in the Hebrew and Chaldee and Syriack and ordained a Priest at Antioch by Paulinus the Byshop there and was a great planter of the truth a rooter out of heresies in saecularibus valde eruditus in Divinis Scripturis eruditissimus I have forborn to set down the Names and Books of the Authors who report thus of these learned Bishops and Divines for that they are so many and well known and for that the same Historiographers do speak of every one of these which to write out would be too oft to repeat the same as Socrates Sozomen Photius Hyeronimus Paulinas Trithemius Sixtus Senensis Baronius and others who have set forth the lives and studies the arts and sciences of these worthies in the Churches of God And now Sir have I not shewed you the good old way here also wherein the Ancient learned Fathers and Pastors and Doctours of the Church of old walked prosperously in their ministery and which Jesus Christ laid out of old for them to walk as who ordereth the steps and wayes of these Righteous good men and his Ministers Psalm 37.23 Yea I have compassed you about with a cloud of witnesses Heb. 12.1 and those not obscure Tenebrios but of the illustrious lights and luminaries of the world who were first Humanely then after Divinely learned brought up at Vniversities and other Schools in the knowledge of the Arts and Languages before they went forth or were called into the Church and Pulpits for the preaching of the Word and Gospel Into which cloud if you will enter and come under it as you cannot avoid it and will be to use the Apostles phrase dipt or baptized into me 1 Cor. 10.2 or rather unto the Worthies I have mentioned in the cloud it will be also unto you as that